international aid organizations. so a very dire situation that shows no end in sight as some of these diplomatic talks that have been taking place have really been so far falling flat on their face without producing any tangible results to stop a cease-fire or to put in place a cease-fire here on the ground, joy. all right . thank you very much, ayman mohyeldin. now i want to bring in the senior diplomatic correspondent and senior bureau chief. thank you for coming back. when you hear that contrast where you have sort of global revulsion at the loss of civilian life in gaza, the sort of nowhere to go situation for the civilians there but really continued strong support inside israel for what is going on, does it seem like these are populations really that even want to come to a conclusion. it s rather disturbing the israeli public is not pressuring the government to take a look at the civilian loss and say, this does not reflect well on israel. maybe hopefully the israeli public wi
relationship between the two countries. that doesn t really count as far as the israeli government is concerned. they re really concerned about growing pressure from governments and calls from, including the united states, to on the one hand backing israel s right to defend itself but questioning the results of that defense. you re right. there are protests by the public all around the world, but inside israel, if anything, the public support for the operation i wouldn t say is growing, but it s very stable because israelis feel it s bad. they don t like the civilian loss of life in gaza, but they feel it s now or never to destroy hamas, joy. all right. thank you so much to martin fletcher. we have additional breaking news to report. we ve now had air canada halt off flights to canada. the easa has been said to issue a strong recommendation to also avoid tel aviv airport until further notice. let s go now to nbc s eamon mohyeldin who s following the conflict in gaza. ayman, give us a
humanitarian situation there in gaza. i m sorry. we re going to get an update from ayman mohyeldin. let s go to that. reporter: joy, it s the fifth day of this ground offensive, and we re entering the third week in the overall operation by israel to try and destroy palestinian rockets and to try and destroy some of those tunnels that it says are now posing a risk to its citizens inside israel. most of the fighting has been concentrated in the eastern part of the gaza strip. that s where israel says it has destroyed about 23 different tunnels in addition to 63 openings that run to those tunnels that run across the border into israel, which it says are being used by hamas and other fighters to carry out attacks inside israel. meanwhile, the israeli air campaign on gaza continues, and that has pushed the death toll up to more than 600 palestinians killed. the majority of them being women and children. i had a chance today to go out and speak to a young palestinian man, 29 years old. he
was ayman mohyeldin who reported what was happening there. and it is even bizarre of what is happening here, is that the same insurgents in the syria and the iraq militants and we want iran s help in iraq or iraq wants iran s help, but only to the point, because iran is on the other side of the conflict as far as the united states is concern concerned with what is going on inside of syria, and so it is look, this is a 1,000-year religion-war between shia and sunni and the borders be damned. and we will weigh in with jim mi miklaszewski. and you are hearing that it may be the worst best scenario to hear that drons could be used by
visiting with the prime minister of australia and the oval office where he indicated among other things that everything, and no options had been reruled out and everything remains on the table the right now, and one other note is that there is a continued ask from iraq for more assistance from the united states, and that presently, there is already some unmanned surveillance flights taking place over the country of iraq. one of the real challenges in this situation, tamron, is the fact that there is limited intelligence to know exactly what you are aiming at, and what targets you are going after in that country right now, and i am told by the administration officials that in recent days they have increased as they said it the sharing of the intelligence information that they have ga thered from the flights above iraq. and to your point, i want to show you before we bring in eamon mohyeldin, and we are asked what he was asking from